Extended Fight Week Activities Brought World-Class Combat to the Ultimate Stage at Galaxy Macau

MACAU SAR – Media OutReach Newswire – 3 June 2026 – At Galaxy Macau the vision met the venue as the award-winning luxury resort played host to a resoundingly successful UFC Fight Week that featured two nights of the ROAD TO UFC Season 5 opening round, and culminated with UFC FIGHT NIGHT^®: Song vs Figueiredo on May 30 at Galaxy Arena—the largest indoor arena in Macau. Across three nights, nearly 20,000 fans packed the Galaxy Arena to witness world-class MMA action, while live broadcast in local primetime entertained audiences in Asia and beyond, further elevating Macau’s profile as a “City of Sports” and contributing to its winning tourism streak.

The excitement reached peak play on May 30 in the sold-out Galaxy Arena, when China’s Song Yadong faced Brazil’s Deiveson Figueiredo in a thrilling main event that captured the home crowd’s frenzied appreciation. Renowned actor Daniel Wu, Hong Kong action star Philip Ng and other celebrities were in attendance, joining fans in witnessing the high-stakes knockout drama inside the Octagon. In a highly anticipated stylistic clash, Song submitted the ultimate showdown against Figueiredo in a thrilling second-round finish that sparked a crowd frenzy, earning him a “Performance of the Night.”

The co-main event light heavyweight bout between Zhang Mingyang and Alonzo Menifield was a non-stop bout that won “Fight of the Night” honours. Facing the ultimate litmus test; another noteworthy bout saw Japan’s former UFC title challenger – battle-tested Kai Asakura – move up to bantamweight, with a heavy-hitting knockout of highly touted prospect Cameron Smotherman in the first round; earning him a “Performance of the Night.”

ROAD TO UFC Season 5 opening round on May 28 and 29 saw fireworks ignite the Octagon, as Galaxy Macau played host to athletes shifting the UFC landscape from China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Nepal, the Philippines, Kyrgyzstan, and Australia showcasing the deep talent pool across the region as they advanced to the semi-finals.

A special UFC main event was featured each night. On Day 1, Rongzhu from Sichuan knocked out Victor Martinez in a little over a minute in the explosive first round. On Day 2, “Doctor” Shi Ming captured a highlight-worthy first-round submission victory over Puja Tomar. With the co-main event featuring the flyweight finale of RTU Season 4, where Mongolia’s Namsrai Batbayar secured the win over Yin Shuai by TKO to earn a coveted UFC contract.

Beyond the Octagon, the state-of-the-art Galaxy Macau UFC experience saw a vibrant curated programme throughout Fight Week, including the official opening ceremony and open workouts at East Square, and a series of exclusive meet-and-greet and Q&A sessions with China’s first UFC champion Zhang Weili, three-time UFC women’s flyweight champion Valentina Shevchenko, former UFC interim featherweight champion Yair Rodriguez, and fan favourite UFC welterweight veteran “Leech” Li Jingliang. Plus, an immersive UFC Fan Experience at the Pearl Lobby at Galaxy Promenade featuring a gaming zone with a range of interactive activities.

An Engine for Economic Diversification
This year marked not only the highly anticipated return of UFC FIGHT NIGHT Macau to Galaxy Arena, but also the debut of ROAD TO UFC in the Macau economy. By hosting Asia-Pacific’s premier tournament pathway for the top regional athletes to make it to UFC, Galaxy Macau continues to expand the city’s appeal to a broader and more diverse international audience, while reinforcing its development as the leading sports destination.

By introducing world-class sports and entertainment and bringing world-class combat to the ultimate stage, Galaxy Macau has proven effective in boosting visitor arrivals, extending the length of stay, and injecting vibrant momentum into the local economy. At the same time, hosting UFC events has created meaningful opportunities for Macau’s event management and related industries to benchmark against international standards, further enhancing local expertise in delivering world-class production to scale. Supported by extensive global broadcast coverage, the visceral thrill of UFC at Galaxy Macau has also significantly elevated Macau’s visibility on the international stage.

This marks the inaugural activation under the strategic partnership between Galaxy Macau and UFC where at least two more UFC FIGHT NIGHT Macau events will be staged in the city, delivering global notoriety to showcase Macau in the years ahead.

For more information about Galaxy Macau, please visit www.galaxymacau.com.
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ABOUT GALAXY MACAU INTEGRATED RESORT

Galaxy Macau, world-class luxury integrated resort, delivers the “Most Spectacular Entertainment and Leisure Destination in the World”. Developed at an investment of HK$43 billion, the property covers 1.1 million-square-meter of unique entertainment and leisure attractions that are unlike anything else in Macau. Nine award-winning world-class luxury hotels provide close to 5,000 rooms, suites and villas. They include Banyan Tree Macau, Galaxy Hotel™, Hotel Okura Macau, JW Marriott Hotel Macau, The Ritz-Carlton, Macau, Broadway Hotel, Raffles at Galaxy Macau, Andaz Macau, and Capella at Galaxy Macau. Unique to Galaxy Macau, the 75,000-square-meter Grand Resort Deck features the world’s longest Skytop Adventure Rapids at 575 metres, the largest Skytop Wave Pool with waves up to 1.5-metre high and 150-metre pristine white sand beach. Two five-star spas from Banyan Tree Spa Macau and The Ritz- Carlton Spa, Macau help guests relax and rejuvenate.

As the dining destination in Asia, Galaxy Macau offers a wide variety of gastronomic delights, exquisite experiences and ingredients of the finest quality with over 120 dining options from Michelin dining to authentic delicacies; Galaxy Promenade is the hottest shopping destination featuring the latest in fashion and curated experiences in Macau. Spanning over 100,000-square-meter, luxury flagship stores, lifestyle boutiques and our selection of labels are among the more than 200 world-renowned brands for a world-class shopping journey; Galaxy Cinemas, immersive thrills and luxurious comfort go hand in hand at Galaxy Cinemas. All 10 theatres are equipped with the latest audio-visual technology; CHINA ROUGE, one-of-a-kind deluxe lounge that evokes the glitz and glamor of Shanghai’s golden era with entertainment in luxury and style; and Foot Hub presents the traditional art of reflexology to make you feel more relaxed and revitalized. For Authentic Macau Flavours & Vibrant Asian Experiences, Broadway Macau – just a 90-second walk via a bridge from Galaxy Macau, has over 35 Authentic Macau & Asian Flavours at its Broadway Food Street. The 2,500-seat Broadway Theatre plays host to world-class entertainers and a diverse array of cultural events. Meeting, incentive and banquet groups are also well looked after with a portfolio of unique venues in Galaxy Macau and a professional service staff.

Galaxy International Convention Center (GICC) is the latest addition to the Group’s ever-expanding integrated resort precinct and will usher in a new era for the MICE industry in Macau. GICC is a world- class event venue featuring 40,000-square-meter of total flexible MICE, and a 16,000-seat Galaxy Arena – the largest indoor arena in Macau.

For more details, please visit www.galaxymacau.com,www.broadwaymacau.com.mo and www.galaxyicc.com.

Born From Personal Experience

Handshake Finance launched in September 2025, founded by Christopher Chan and Lee Jun Xian. Both had seen the trust gap up close.

Jun’s close friend lost S$80,000 in pre-payments to a renovation company that collapsed mid-project. At the same time, Christopher’s friend paid a deposit on a rental home she had never viewed, only to discover the listing was fraudulent. Both incidents pointed to the same structural failure: in service industries, someone always carries the risk, and when trust breaks down, there is little recourse on either side.

The two founders met as university classmates in London and returned to the problem with complementary backgrounds. Christopher Chan had spent his career in fintech, designing compliant payment flows on regulated infrastructure. Lee Jun Xian came from venture capital, with experience scaling early-stage companies from zero to one.

Trust as the foundation, not the feature

Handshake operates on bank-grade payment infrastructure provided by MAS-regulated partners. All payment flows are fully MAS regulated, and funds are held with DBS in segregated escrow accounts. For the founders, this is not a checkbox — it is the entire foundation of the business.

“We are trying to solve a structural trust gap in service industries. But before any of that, our users have to trust us,” said Christopher Chan, Co-Founder of Handshake Finance. “Making sure every fund flow is fully compliant, and that our users feel completely assured handing us money in what are often life-changing transactions, is our number one priority. Everything else is built on top of that.”

Closing the Trust Gap Across Service Industries

Every high-trust service transaction carries the same structural flaw: either the customer pays before work is done, or the provider works before getting paid. Someone always carries the risk. Across industries — from renovation and interior design to event planning, creative agencies, and professional services — that risk falls entirely on one side, and when trust breaks down, there is little recourse for either party.

Handshake Finance was built to close that gap. The platform holds customer funds in escrow and releases them to service providers against agreed milestones, giving buyers protection from pre-payment risk while giving service providers the confidence to deliver. The model is designed to work across any service industry where the payment trust problem exists.

Why Renovation and Interior Design Is Handshake’s Beachhead Market

Renovation was where the structural failure ran deepest. The industry operates with no mandatory licensing or regulatory framework. Anyone can set up as an interior designer with no accreditation required, leaving homeowners with no reliable way to assess accountability before signing a contract.

There is no standard payment framework either. Homeowners routinely pay up to 50% of the total project value upfront, with funds going directly to the interior designer before any work begins. If a project stalls or a firm shuts down, there is limited protection and recourse. At the other end of the project, interior designers face the opposite problem: the final handover payment, where homeowners hold most of the leverage, can be withheld over disputes that wipe out up to half a project’s margin.

Eight Months of Listening Before a Single Line of Code

Before writing any software, the Handshake team spent eight months speaking with more than 80 interior designers and homeowners across Singapore to understand the real frictions on both sides of the transaction. What they found reinforced the decision to start here: high transaction values, a broken payment norm, an unregulated supply side, and no existing platform that protected both parties.

That research shaped how the product was built. After a renovation contract is signed, Handshake’s AI automatically generates the transaction structure with line items, payment schedules, and sub-milestones set out clearly to remove ambiguity. Homeowners place funds into escrow rather than paying upfront directly to the interior designer.

Payment releases to the designer as work progresses against agreed milestones, with sub-milestone releases providing faster cashflow access without compromising homeowner protection. The platform also replaces the manual spreadsheet-based back-office admin most interior design firms still run, and offers complimentary mediation and independent assessments in the event of a dispute.

More than 40 Interior Design Companies Onboarded and 2 Major Partnerships Signed

Handshake now has more than 40 interior design companies onboarded. The company has signed partnerships with Renonation.sg and Network SG, two of Singapore’s most established renovation marketplaces, to drive awareness and adoption across the broader ecosystem.

“It is an incredible feeling to see this much support behind us, and we are excited about what is ahead,” said Lee Jun Xian, Co-Founder of Handshake Finance. “We are industry-agnostic by design, but we are laser-focused on fixing renovation first. The scams that are still everyday occurrences in this space need to go, and the transactional experience for everyone involved needs to be better before we turn our attention to the next industry or market.”

Homeowners and interior designers can learn more or request access at handshake.finance.

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About Handshake Finance

Handshake Finance is a Singapore-based fintech building escrow-as-a-service infrastructure for high-trust service industries. The platform holds customer funds in segregated escrow accounts and releases them against agreed milestones, protecting buyers from pre-payment risk while giving service providers the confidence to deliver. All payment flows are fully MAS regulated. Funds are held with DBS. Handshake is currently focused on Singapore’s renovation and interior design market as its beachhead, with plans to expand across other service industries and Southeast Asia.

From late May to early June 2026, VinRobotics introduced the VR-H3 humanoid robot to international experts and the public across a series of global technology and robotics events, including ICRA 2026, the outdoor robotics festival Festival der Roboter 2026 held as part of ICRA 2026, Vietnam Robot Tech Day 2026, a technology diplomacy event co-organized by VinRobotics and the Embassy of Vietnam in Austria, as well as COMPUTEX 2026 in Taipei.

Across all events, VR-H3 attracted attention for its stable operation in open environments and crowded exhibition spaces, agile mobility, and ability to perform flexible and dexterous manipulation tasks, highlighting the practical potential of humanoid robots in both everyday life and industrial environments.

VR-H3 is the third-generation humanoid robot built by VinRobotics, featuring core technologies developed entirely in-house by Vietnamese engineers, including the mechanical structure, real-time computing and communication electrical/electronic (E/E) architecture, power distribution platform, battery system, and full-body AI control technology. Equipped with more than 31 actuators and two onboard edge computers, VR-H3 can perceive its surroundings, interact with humans, lift payloads of up to 6–8 kilograms, transport objects, and perform assembly operations.

As part of the events, alongside showcasing the VR-H3 humanoid robot, VinRobotics also participated in technical talks featuring leading global industry names such as Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Boston Dynamics. A key highlight of VinRobotics’ presentations was its integrated technology ecosystem surrounding the VR-H3 platform, spanning from humanoid robotic systems to core enabling technologies such as robotic hands and high-performance actuators independently researched and developed by Vietnamese engineers. These presentations drew strong interest from industry experts, expanding VinRobotics’ connections within the global technology ecosystem while reinforcing the potential of Vietnamese enterprises in core AI and robotics technologies.

On this occasion, VinRobotics also announced its strategy to gradually open-source selected foundational robotics technologies to contribute to the broader development of the global technology community. This initiative aims to create an open knowledge ecosystem where researchers, developers, and engineers can learn, collaborate, and accelerate the growing presence of robotics technologies developed by Vietnamese engineers within the global embodied AI wave.

Mr. Ngo Quoc Hung, Chief Executive Officer of VinRobotics, said: “Bringing VR-H3 to international technology forums is not only an opportunity for VinRobotics to showcase the capabilities of Vietnamese engineers, but also a real-world testing process to further refine humanoid robot platforms designed for practical applications and real-life operating environments. We believe humanoid robots and embodied AI will soon become an integral part of both daily life and industrial operations, and Vietnam is fully capable of becoming an active contributor to this technological wave with products developed by Vietnamese engineers.”

At a time when the robotics industry continues to be led primarily by major technology powers such as the United States, China, and Japan, VinRobotics’ presence across multiple international forums highlights the increasingly visible role of Vietnamese technology enterprises in the global race for robotics and embodied AI.

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About VinRobotics

Founded in November 2024, VinRobotics is a technology company under Vingroup, focusing on the research, development, and application of humanoid robots and autonomous robotic platforms. With the vision of becoming a world-leading company in robotic workforce technologies, VinRobotics aims to develop advanced technology solutions that enhance productivity, improve quality of life, and contribute to building a sustainable and prosperous future.